While Donald Berwick and his growing army of health care apparatchiks decide which medicines to deny Medicare patients, the Democrats have been spending large sums on programs that sound too preposterous to be real: $700K on joke-telling robots, $3.4 million to build a pedestrian tunnel for turtles and $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink […]
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VIDEO: PETE STARK CLAIMS CONSTITUTION PLACES NO REAL LIMITS ON FEDERAL POWER
At a town hall meeting with Democrat Pete Stark, a young woman points out that ObamaCare essentially negates the 13th Amendment (for you progressives, that’s the one that abolishes slavery). She correctly says that, by conferring a ”right” to health care, the “reform” bill grants one group of people the power to seize the labor and resources […]
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BEGINS RATIONING CANCER DRUGS
I have occasionally used the sad stories of Jack Rosser and Albert Baxter, both of whom were denied cancer drugs by Britain’s socialized medical system, to illustrate the cruel and arbitrary rationing methods utilized by all government-run health care systems.
For those of you who think that such horrors could never be inflicted on Americans, that all that stuff […]
UK’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ILLUSTRATES THE PROBLEM WITH “FREE” HEALTH CARE
Here’s what you can expect in the brave new health care world Donald Berwick, Obama’s new CMS administrator, has planned for you. The NHS, which Berwick “loves,” is running out of money (as will Medicare in the not-too-distant future) and the average Brit will pay a heavy price for depending on the nanny state for health care:
NHS bosses have drawn […]
GUN CONTROL & GOVT HEALTH CARE: WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?
Paul Hsieh’s latest column for Pajamas Media correctly points out that both spring from the same elitist paternalism:
Both the gun control statists and the health care statists believe that we are fundamentally irrational creatures incapable of managing our lives. Hence, the government must restrict our freedoms for our own good.
This paternalism is the source of Donald […]
WHY IS THE FDA INVESTIGATING CYCLING?!?!
A few days ago, I linked to Paul Hsieh’s op-ed about FDA interference with your right to get information about your own DNA. If that didn’t convince you that the FDA has gone completely off the rails, this will:
The U.S. criminal investigation, which is being led by the Food and Drug Administration … is designed to potentially […]
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
That’s what the FDA has told Americans who want a little information about their own DNA. Paul Hsieh has a good piece at PajamasMedia outlining this latest example of federal paternalism:
Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed private companies to offer affordable genetic testing directly to consumers, to help them determine their risks of developing problems […]
VIDEO: BERWICK DENOUNCES FREE MARKET
Our President, having correctly concluded that Donald Berwick would never be confirmed by the Senate as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, shoved him down our throats with a recess appointment.
But the “news” media tell us not to worry because that all this talk about Berwick’s anti-market, statist ideology is just the GOP noise machine. […]
VA HOSPITAL EXPOSES 1,800 VETS TO HIV?
For years, progressives have extolled the virtues of the VA hospital system. Ignoring the veterans who have actually been subjected to its tender mercies, advocates of government-run health care doggedly insist that the VA provides better health care than the private system. Well, they may have trouble selling that BS after this debacle:
The Department of Veterans Affairs […]
DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE IN GERMANY
If you ever wonder where Washington’s constant monkeying with Medicare physician payment rates is heading, this news item from Europe will provide a glimpse of things to come:
Some 15,000 doctors across Germany are staging a walkout to press for higher pay and better working conditions, a union said on Monday.
And patients who need care? They are expected to seek […]
